We went for dinner at Roseanna’s Cafe again and walked on the beach afterwards. A land artist made a very cool spiral out of seagrass, kicking off this blog post dedicated to amazing things seen on the beach!
Remember when we mentioned that there’s a tunnel through this huge rock that separates the regular beach from the bonus beach? At the center bottom here, you can see the north side of the tunnel entrance.
This morning the tide was way out when I went down for my morning run, and so I was able to go further north than we’d been before. It is sooooo cool over there. Another arch:
And the rocks covered with mussels also had, particulary at the bottom area closer to the sand, big circular sea life forms that I can’t identify, and also a lot of bright purple and bright orange starfish!
Beyond the bonus beach, there was another bonus beach! This one would have required a thigh-deep walk through water, and not sure what the returning after tide comes in plan would be. There were people over there, though!
People can get shellfishing licenses and they use a tool that’s kinda like a long screwdriver with a notch at the end to pull mussels off the rocks. That’s what these people were doing below, while their dogs had a great time jumping all around. This place is extremely fun for dogs.
Hope you all like starfish. I switched gears at this point, saved my run stats for the day, and dedicated the morning to spotting and photographing starfish.
And sea birds.
After leaving the starfish zone, I came back around to the more exposed side of the beach. Here you can see the tunnel leading through the rock on the south side. I’m giving Oceanside a huge thumbs up!
Rory would love those starfish… very cool spot!
Soooo cool! Makes a person want to become a marine biologist. Reminds me of Doc, the marine biologist in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. I wonder if the round unidentified things are sea anemones.